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[inkedspell]

You crazy people can't ever seem to stay out of trouble, but at least that keeps this place fun.

I may have been gone for a while but it didn't take me much to catch up so Tutoring Sessions Will Continue! If you weren't on my list before but want to be now, hit me up. If you want to drop the sessions, that's fine, too.

And I left that adaptive golem for a reason, but should have known someone would abuse the opportunity teach him how to cuss in ten different languages. Cute, but unhelpful for my research.

If it was you Spudnut, I will find out.

{OOC: Sarona has been absent for nearly two months due to a death and legal custody issues, but she's back now and ready to get back into things!}

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[inkedspell]

[Shit, Toki. She can see it now when he blanks out, having whatever vision is in his mind. That doesn't make her worry any less about him.]

Tik-tok, you need to go to a doctor. I've heard of Rex, but does he know how to deal with your visions? Just knowing when they happen doesn't help you deal with the effects. You need a doctor who has some familiarity with it. If you put some alarms and a schedule in your phone, you won't forget what you need to do and you can still get yourself checked out. I'll help you.

[She may not always take care of herself now, but Sarona knows how serious this stuff can be. She almost died so many times when she was little because her parents would put off worrying about her health until it was convenient or immediately necessary.]

[yokeye]

That's a good idea~!

[He won't tell her he's broken or lost three phones within the last month. It's a toss up whether his current phone will stay in tact long enough to send the alarm. He grabs the phone anyway to arbitraily pick a time to remind him of things.]

Okay! Alarm set! Can we do this project now?

[Though having a similar parental situation as Sarona, Toki was never physically ill enough for any immediate intervention to be needed. He's never been to a doctor for anything until coming to Daybreak. It hasn't been fixed as a necessary thing in his mind. It's an afterthought.]

[inkedspell]

[She isn't sure she trusts him to be doing enough, but Sarona knows pressing it right now isn't going to work. So instead she'll go along and go looking into things later.]

Yeah, good. Let's get this done. Now we just need to look at whatever spell you were going to use and I need to bring up the sound of a fly buzzing on my laptop. Then we'll try to copy it.

[yokeye]

[He is absolutely not to be trusted.]

Right! The spell~!

[Oh my god. He didn't do that either. He flips through his notes to something vaguely spell-like. He can't read several of the words, which either means it's Latin or some other spell-language, or it's just a jumbled mess of French that he misspelled or that had never made sense to begin with. He shows Sarona the "spell".]

Is this good?

[inkedspell]

Uh...no. Not at all. I can barely read that. Either you're gonna have to write it out in a way I can read it, or we're gonna have to make it from scratch.

[If Toki has been dealing with three to four visions a day, no wonder he can't keep track of anything he's doing. She knows she gets frustrated with him sometimes, but at least she understands more now. Even if she still wants to strangle him for not taking what seems like something really damn important as seriously as it deserves. Why are some people so blind to taking care of themselves?]

[yokeye]

From scratch!

[It's an immediate answer. Help, Sarona.]

I don't even know if that's a spell to be honest~!

[Toki focuses on smaller things, one problem at a time, because anything involving himself or his future doesn't matter. Half the time he feels so disconnected from everything that he isn't sure he even exists. He doesn't know what he's doing, or where he's going in life; he's directionless and unimportant. This project, and almost everything else he does, is a distraction from that.]

[inkedspell]

[Sari takes a little breath, but keeps up her smile.]

Sure. Just let me look over these notes again so I get a better idea of it.

[As she hadn't taken this class yet, but she'd done enough independent research to have a grasp of what they were doing and what direction to take it in. She breezes through the notes, getting what she can from his handwriting scrawled across the pages.]

Okay, I think I know what we need to do. First we have to prep the items then we need to add in the auditory component with a different spell. Do you want it to project?

[yokeye]

[He nods, following along until her last part. Project? Project what? Isn't that what the auditory component is doing already? Is there something else? Spells are too complicated.]

Uhh... Yes?

[inkedspell]

[Okay it's obvious that he's getting confused so she thinks of how to explain it.]

Do you want it to sound like the fly is buzzing around you, or do you want the sound to project somewhere else. Like a ventriloquist throwing their voice.

[yokeye]

Oh! Around like the whole room!

[He didn't think about there being a difference on where the sound would be perceived from.]

Unless that's harder to do!

[inkedspell]

Hm...[Sarona is looking at his notes again, then brings up her own notebook to start writing her own translation of them. His are such a mess.]

It's a little harder, but not much. We just need to put a delay on the sound so that it comes across like it's further away. Like...a bubble with sound in it and when it's far enough away it pops so it doesn't sound like it came from whoever blew it.

[She hopes that makes sense.]

[yokeye]

Oh. Okay.

[That doesn't sound too complicated in theory, and the bubble analogy makes sense to him.]

I should be able to do this!

[Maybe not well, but whatever. Trying counts.]

[inkedspell]

[Sarona is happy he seems excited. This is a definite improvement from last time when she delt like she didn't really help at all.]

Yeah I think we can work it. If you need help, I can give you some hints.

[She doesn't want to hand him answers or do his work for him, but she'll give him a few "cheat codes."]

[yokeye]

[Toki's more invested this time around as well, and not immediately shutting her down because he had already decided it was impossible. Not having a deadline makes it less stressful, as well as having their tutoring session be on one project and not an entire class-load of work at once.

He sets the ribbon and pen down in front of him. He's going to attempt to enchant them both at the same time, so they make the exact same sound. Whether that's a good idea or not is unknown to him. Toki leafs through his notes one more time, and reads through the spell three times before even attempting to say the words aloud.

The wiggles his fingers at the items while reciting, not that it does anything; it's just a little added flair. He pronounces no less than six words of the spell wrong and by the end, the pen has gone flying across the room.]